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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 107 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Republicans championing free speech once again by banning pieces of paper.

[–] negativenull@lemm.ee 55 points 1 year ago (4 children)

but allowing hand guns....

On Monday, the Tennessee House voted on allowing the pieces of paper along partisan lines. Democrats argued they were harmless, and questioned if guns could be brought into Cordell Hull, why couldn't the signage.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Of course. You never know when a bad guy with a piece of paper might threaten everyone.

[–] negativenull@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

All you need for a bad-guy with a piece of paper, is a good guy with a piece of paper.
Wait, that's wrong....
All you need for a bad-guy with a piece of paper, is a good guy with a gun.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~You need a hero with a piece of paper to save everyone. ~~

Whoops. @ negativenull beat me to it and the app I’m on ~~doesn’t appear to have strikethrough.~~ Apologies.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Strikethrough is just surrounding your text with ~~ on either side, touching non-whitespace characters.

~~Like this.~~ looks ~~Like this.~~

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] KairuByte@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You almost got it, gotta remove the space between that last period and the following tilde. Whitespace kills markdown in most cases.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Nah. You just need a guy with scissors when there's a bad guy with paper. Rocks OTOH, ban that shit.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Simple. Stuff the paper inside the guns.

[–] negativenull@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

That's called Wadding!

[–] golamas1999@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What would happen if they had the paper but also had guns. Or black people with guns? Or socialists with guns?

How would their opinions change?

[–] ShakyPerception@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They would have been shot on sight by the brave troopers (who actually showed up and took action this time, which is a nice change) who escorted everyone out the door.

[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The truth is way more dangerous to Republicans.

[–] argo_yamato@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well that makes sense most Republicans there probably can't read and the signs make them uncomfortable because they can't shout over the signs.

[–] ShakyPerception@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

And it’s there forever. No matter what they say or do… that paper is still there with the same message

[–] ShakyPerception@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Paper is scary. Plus, there’s a really good chance they don’t know what the “ > “ symbol means, so they are freaking out that it might be “woke”